Jairam Ramesh greets Venkaiah Naidu on birthday; reminds him of Andhra special category status ‘promise’

Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh.

Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh greeted former vice president M Venkaiah Naidu on his birthday on Monday, 1 July, and hoped that the “promise” he made on the floor of the Rajya Sabha that the BJP when elected to power, will grant special category status to Andhra Pradesh for a period of ten years will get fulfilled soon.

Naidu, who served as the 13th vice president of India from 2017 to 2022, turned 75 on Monday.

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Speaks of special category status

In a post on X, Ramesh said, “Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu-garu is 75 today. While greeting him on this joyous occasion and while recalling our frequent but always friendly clashes, I can only hope that the promise he made on 20 Feb, 2014 on the floor of the Rajya Sabha – that the BJP when elected to power will grant special category status to the new state of Andhra Pradesh for a period of ten years — will get fulfilled soon by the non-biological PM who, incidentally, repeated this promise in the sacred city of Tirupati on 30 April, 2014, but did nothing about it.”